The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-02-26
A Clock That Beats All Others.

Another great clock has been added to
the horological wonders of the world-a
piece of mechanism that will vie with the
elaborate marvel of Strasburg cathedral,
and put the professional curiosity of
Berne Tower into the shade. The latest
effort of the renowned Christian Martin,
of Villingen, in the Black Forest, is said,
in its way, to surpass anything of the
kind yet attempted. 1t is three and one
half metres high, two and three-quarters
broad, and shows the seconds, minutes,
quarter hours, hours, days, weeks,
months, the four seasons, the years and
leap years until the last sound of the year
90, 999 of the Christian era.
Moreover, it tells on its face the cor
rect time for various latitudes, together
Of useful information generally confined
to the pages Of an almanac.
1t also contains a vast number of work.
ing figures representing the life of man,
the creed of Christendom and the ancient
Pagan and Teutonic mythologies. Sixty
separaty and individualized statuettes
strike the sixty minutes. Death is rep
resented as in Holbein's famous dance, in
the form of skeleton. In another part
appear the twelve apostles, the seven
ages of man, modelled after the descrip-
ton of Shakespeare, the four seasons, the
twelve signs of the Zodiac, and SO on.
During the night time watchman sal
lies forth and blows the hour upon the
horn; while at sunrise cl4anticleer ap-
pears and crows Justify. The cuckoo
also calls, but only once year-on the
first day in spring. Besides these figures
there is whole series of movable figures
in enamel, exhibiting in succession the
seven days of creation and the fourteen
stations of the cross, At certain hour
little sacristan rings bell in the spire
and kneels down and folds his hands as
if in prayer; and, above all, the musical
works are said to have sweet and de-
icious, futelike tone.-St. James
Gazette.
Hungry Joes' of Society.
wish-somebody who could would tell
me what special fascination there is in a
meager lunch, with tea or coffee, for peo-
pie who spend hundreds of dollars week
to run their home tables: that even the
wealthiest and best folks in society viii
pull and push and almost tear each
others clothes of to get cup Of poor
tea, or a thin ham sandwich, or half
dozen raw oysters sacrificing breeding
self respect and all the usual courtesies
due from one individual to another on
such occasions for this modicum of re-
freshment? 1t may seem ridiculous, but
it Is nevertheless true, that some ladies
have tasted for forty-eight hours to get
their appetites in trim for an afternoon
tea or an evening entertainment where
they expected a particularly good table.
And when the evening came these
ladies were not alone with their unwhet-
ted appetites. There were others there,
too, crushing to the front themselves, or
sending their male friends to jostle and
jolt and struggle with each other for the
coveted edibles. Sitting on stairways
and clustered in Railways, bellies and mat
rcns who would scorn such an indignity
in the privacy of their own houses, sip
their tea or surround the slippery oyster
and seem perfectly content. See the sac
rifices made for this little free lunch.
Ladies forgetting their manners and gem
tlemen wrecking their nerves and putting
themselves into perspiration besides maxi
ing positive vulgarians of themselves, for
plateful or a cupful of refreshment that
might be had at any restaurant for 10
cents or at the utmost 25.-Cor. Globe
Democrat.